The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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